Vocabulary
This is the arrangement of the atoms in a molecule
What is molecular geometry?
In a valence shell of an atom, if there are 4 electron domains, the VSEPR Theory suggests that the atom will be arranged in a(n) _____ geometry.
What is a tetrahedral?
The orbitals that overlap to form pi bonds.
What are py and pz orbitals?
Diamagnetism
What is a property demonstrated by a molecule where all electrons are paired.
Name the possible orbitals involved in non-hybrid bonding.
What is s and one dimension of p orbitals?
A region about the central atom where an electron pair is concentrated.
What is an electron domain?
This has an angle less than 109.5 degrees with an orbital hybridization of sp^3, and an example is OF2 .
What is bent molecular geometry?
This type of bond occurs by overlapping on the internuclear axis.
What is sigma bonding?
The bond order in the molecule N2
What is 3?
The phenomena responsible for hybrid orbitals.
What is orbital overlap?
Chemical bonding in which an electron pair bond is formed between two atoms by the overlap of orbitals on the two atoms .
What is the valence-bond theory?
In order for a molecule to have delocalized pi bonds it must have ______.
What are resonance structures?
This has a large lobe pointed toward the vertex of a triangle and a smaller lobe pointed toward the center of the triangle.
What is sp2 hybrid orbital?
Molecular orbital diagrams allow us to account for _____ without having to draw multiple Lewis structures.
What is resonance?
An example of a molecule that exhibits paramagnetism.
What is oxygen?
This is the type of magnetic behavior with molecules attracted into a magnetic field.
What is paramagnetism?
What are the electron-domain and molecular geometry of an H3O+ ion?
What is a tetrahedral and trigonal pyramidal?
The hybridization of a central carbon atom of the electron-domain geometry of a tetrahedral is ____.
What is sp3?
A property which the Lewis structure fails to account for but the MO description does account for.
What is paramagnetism?
This depends on the polarities of the individual bonds and geometry of the molecule.
What is dipole moment?
This is the electron density centered around the internuclear axis in the bonding and antibond MOs.
What is sigma molecular orbitals?
The bond angle of Bromine Pentafluoride.
What is <90 degrees?
The constant motion of electrons in overlapping unhybridized p orbitals.
What is the delocalization of pi bonds?
Molecules that exhibit paramagnetism
What is have unpaired electrons in their molecular orbitals?
What is the molecular geometry of TeCl4 (ST)?
What is a seesaw?